Steve Yates
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Steve Yates

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Steve Yates was born and reared in Springfield, Missouri. He is the author of Morkan's Quarry: A Novel, and its sequel, The Teeth of the Souls. Portions of Morkan's Quarry appeared in Missouri Review, Ontario Review, and South Carolina Review. A novella-length excerpt was a finalist in the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Faulkner / Wisdom Award for the Best Novella. Two portions of The Teeth of the Souls appeared in The Missouri Review, another in Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozarks Studies, and a novella-length portion appeared in Arkansas Review/Kansas Quarterly. Yates is the 2012 Winner of the Juniper Prize, and The University of Massaschusetts Press published Some Kinds of Love: Stories in April 2013. He won the inaugural Knickerbocker Prize in 2013 for his novella "Sandy and Wayne," which was chosen by novelist Lauren Groff and published in Big Fiction. Dock Street Press in Seattle published Sandy and Wayne as a stand-alone book in early 2016. For his fiction, Yates is the recipient of a grant from the Arkansas Arts Council and twice the recipient of grants from the Mississippi Arts Commission. His short stories have appeared in TriQuarterly, Southwest Review, Western Humanities Review, Turnstile, Harrington Gay Men's Literary Quarterly, Valley Voices, and elsewhere. Yates is associate director / marketing director at University Press of Mississippi and lives in Flowood with his wife Tammy. Photo by Ellie Banks, Mississippi Public Broadcasting.
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